tempo, Jakarta – Indonesia aims to become a hub for Islamic fashion and the global halal industry and should take the lead in setting standards for modest fashion, a foreign ministry official said.
Choki Aprianda Siregar, an official at the ministry’s Policy Strategy Special Issues and Data Analysis Center, said Indonesia should seize the opportunity to standardize modest fashion given the lack of standards for it globally.
“We can set modest fashion as a benchmark, meaning other countries producing modest fashion products will follow our standards,” Siregar said in a press statement received on Friday (July 19), reported Antara.
He is optimistic that modest fashion trade is expected to reach US$428 billion by 2027, which will position Indonesia as a global leader in the halal industry and Muslim modest fashion market.
Meanwhile, Siregar stressed the need for the government and other stakeholders to make the most of market intelligence to study the global market, especially the markets of major importers of Indonesian modest fashion products.
He also stressed the need to explore new sources of better quality cotton at more affordable prices so that Indonesia’s domestic industry can produce modest fashion products more competitively.
He said demand was likely to increase as the market potential for modest fashion expanded beyond Muslim-majority countries, highlighting growing interest from European customers in less revealing clothing.
The ministry, which has representation in 138 countries, can help domestic industries understand the requirements of the global modest fashion sector, officials said.
Meanwhile, Assistant Minister for Partnership and Market Expansion at the Ministry of Cooperatives, SMEs and Enterprises, Phiksy, expressed hope that the country’s stakeholders will develop a modest fashion ecosystem and make Indonesia its hub.
To this end, Fixy called for the creation of a master plan for the development of modest fashion in Indonesia and the regular holding of modest fashion events.
She also emphasized the need for a Presidential Regulation on Modest Fashion in Indonesia to provide a legal basis for the development and expansion of modest fashion in Indonesia.
Antara
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